Editors' Review

The official MLB.com app, MLB.com At Bat Lite brings you the latest scores, news, and videos from one of America's best-loved sport leagues and lets you track your favorite teams, proving to be a treat to baseball fans. To enjoy live audio and video content, however, you have to buy a premium subscription.

Pros

Complete news source for baseball fans: Even the lite version of MLB.com At Bat Lite brings you a wealth of news and media content, featuring a scoreboard, headlines, and standings, which update as soon as the matches are finished. As a smartphone or tablet user, it's more convenient to devour this info through this app than through the official website.

Highly customizable team notifications: You can choose to receive Game Start/End, Scoring Plays, Lead Change, and News notifications, with or without sound, on a per-team basis, so that you can enable, for example, only scoring alerts for the Boston Red Sox and only news alerts for the New York Yankees.

Featured videos: While exclusive in-game highlights are a paid feature, in the Video highlights page accessible through the left-hand side menu, you'll find entertaining short videos like the Must Cs with impressive catches, hits, singles, and runners, as well as other great moments from the latest matches.

Cons

Slightly awkward controls and navigation: While navigating your way through this app isn't that hard, the swiping left and right hand gesture, so intuitively used by other apps for tab switching, is hardly used at all by this app. All the submenus, like News, Videos, or Stats are packed in a right-hand side submenu, which means you need two taps to access any of them.

Best features require subscription: To enjoy exclusive in-game highlights, MLB.TV Game of the Day, live audio and look-ins, and gameplay pitch f/x, you have to spend $2.99 a month or $9.99 for the whole 2014 season.

Bottom Line

If you love baseball, you can't miss MLB.com At Bat Lite. While it's not necessarily the easiest app to navigate, it has such an engaging stream of content that once you pick it up it's hard to put down. You don't really need to buy the subscription to enjoy it.

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Publisher's Description

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From MLB:
***Now available as a single app for both Android phones and select tablets*****MLB.TV Premium subscribers: To Access At Bat 12 features for free, download At Bat Lite, and Log in with your MLB.com Account. This will unlock At Bat 12 features. ***The #1 sports app of all-time, MLB.com At Bat, returns with live Spring Training baseball from the Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues.Additional features and functionality will be released in an update that will be available before Opening Night (April 4).Among the features available for Spring Training are:- Customize At Bat's home screen to feature your designated favorite team.- Favorite team icon home screen widget for one-click access to your favorite teams At Bat 12 homepage (only available for Android phones)- MLB icon home screen widget for in-progress scores around the league- Follow batter-by-batter action for every Spring Training game- Breaking news, schedules and interactive rosters and players stats for every team***MLB.TV Support - We are adding devices for MLB.TV as we test them. We will update the list below with the current set of supported devices. New device support will be added outside of a new app update.***MLB.TV Handsets Supported - TestedHTC Desire HDHTC Droid Incredible HTC Droid Incredible IIHTC Evo 3DHTC Evo 4GHTC Evo 4G ShiftHTC G2HTC ThunderboltLG Nitro HD Motorola DroidMotorola Droid 2Motorola Droid 2 GLOBALMotorola Droid 3 Motorola Droid 4Motorola Droid BIONICMotorola Droid Pro Motorola Droid RAZR/RAZR MAXXMotorola Droid X Sony Xperia Play Samsung Droid ChargeSamsung Galaxy NexusSamsung Galaxy NoteSamsung Galaxy S (Sprint)Samsung Galaxy S II (AT&T, Sprint, TMobile)Samsung Nexus SSamsung Nexus S 4GMore to comeMLB.TV Tablets Supported - TestedAmazon Kindle FireMotorola XoomSamsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 (VZW Only)Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Wifi Only version)More to come 2012 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. All Major League Baseball trademarks and copyrights used herein are the property of the applicable MLB entity. All rights reserved.Recent changes:- MLB.TV Premium Subscribers can access At Bat 12 features for free. Log in with your MLB.com account to unlock At Bat 12 features- Updated design and navigation- Universal app available for both Android phones and select tablets- New supported MLB.TV devices. See supported devices in description. If your device is not currently supported check back here for the updated support list. New device support will be added outside of a new app updateContent rating: Low Maturity

What's new in this version:

- MLB.TV Premium Subscribers can access At Bat 12 features for free. Log in with your MLB.com account to unlock At Bat 12 features- Updated design and navigation- Universal app available for both Android phones and select tablets- New supported MLB.TV devices. See supported devices in description. If your device is not currently supported check back here for the updated support list. New device support will be added outside of a new app update

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What's new in version 1.0.0

- MLB.TV Premium Subscribers can access At Bat 12 features for free. Log in with your MLB.com account to unlock At Bat 12 features- Updated design and navigation- Universal app available for both Android phones and select tablets- New supported MLB.TV devices. See supported devices in description. If your device is not currently supported check back here for the updated support list. New device support will be added outside of a new app update